Inside the ‘Cartier: The Style and History’ exhibition

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Cartier’s biggest exhibition to date has opened in the Salon d’Honneur at the Grand Palais, Paris

Designed as an art history exhibition, over 600 items including jewels,
paintings, dresses and furniture will be on display until February 2014.

Cartier is often thought of as the go-to jewellery house for the ultimate
romantic proposal prop, but its history goes far beyond ring boxes. The
heritage of the house weaves through the history of the decorative arts,
from traditional royal treasures to revolutionary Art Nouveau designs,
innovative clocks and objets de curiosite.

Curated by Laurent Salomé, chief heritage curator and head of exhibitions at
the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the exhibition explores the period from
the house’s foundation

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Grace Kelly in the film “ High society “ 1956

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Grace Kelly in the film “ High society “ 1956

December 5 2013 MGM/ Collection Sunset Boulevard

The engagement ring, set with a 10.47-carat emerald-cut diamond, given by Prince Rainier III to his fiancée Grace Kelly.

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In her official 1959 portrait, Princess Grace is wearing three Cartier creations: a diamond-and-ruby tiara, a three-tiered diamond necklace and a diamond-and-ruby bracelet.

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In 1955, Princess Margaret wears a rose-motif diamond brooch created in 1938.

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French actors Jean Marais and Josette Day on the set of Beauty and the Beast

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Marilyn Monroe listens as French actor Yves Montand speaks and gestures with a cigarette in his hand during a press conference for director George Cukor’s film ‘Let’s Make Love,’ in which they co-starred.